Data

The op-ed observes that the ethical use of science has always benefited citizens, and it presents new benefits that citizens can nowadays derive from research on the effectiveness of public policies, thanks to the safe access to linked public registries. It gives account of experiences in this field in different European countries, it highlights the roles of the scientific community, and it argues that each country could experience positive effects via learning about the effectiveness of public policies in other European countries.

Environment at a Glance is the OECD platform for environmental indicators. It gives access to the most recent data through interactive graphics and provides key messages on major environmental issues. The indicators shown provide a tool to track environmental performance and progress towards sustainable development.

Expert stakeholder workshop of the BioMonitor project focused on data collection methodologies.

Information on the world's forests will be more transparent and easy-to-use than ever in the coming years, thanks to the new cooperation between FAO and the Government of Norway, which aims to improve global statistics on forest resources and their changes.

The status report explains the relevant topics of the UFOP annual report on national and international biofuel policy, on biofuel accompanying research for UFOP-funded projects, and on biofuel statistics.

As leaders from around the world gather in New York for Climate Week NYC, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, in collaboration with Material Economics, has launched Completing the Picture: How the Circular Economy Tackles Climate Change. The paper reveals the need for a fundamental shift in the global approach to tackling climate change.

Migration can shape how a child grows up and has an impact on children’s identity, development and well-being. The new report "Data on Children in Migration" brings together information and analyses available from various sources – including Eurostat and national records – to make EU-wide estimates on the numbers of child migrants.

In 2016 alone, about 2.9 billion international trips occurred worldwide - around 600 million more than five years earlier. With around 1.2 billion estimated country-to-country movements in 2016, the EU is the region with the highest mobility in the world. These estimates stem from the Global Mobilities Project's new Global Transnational Mobility Dataset.

A dedicated section on migration in Europe prepared by the European Commission's Knowledge Centre on Migration and Demography has just been released on IOM's Global Migration Data Portal.

Side event of the Regional Forum on Sustainable Development for the UNECE Region

The KC for Territorial Policies organises a Workshop on Territorial Indicators on 13th – 14th March 2019, in Ispra, Italy.

A recently published JRC report provides a quantitative assessment of policy options for the agricultural sector in the second phase of the Emerging Senegal Plan (ESP) and corresponding Priority Action Plan (PAP), which covers the period 2019-2023.

The JRC organises a roundtable on how can EU policies benefit from new microdata and a presentation of the book Data-Driven Policy Impact Evaluation: How Access to Microdata is Transforming Policy Design.